[OpenAFS] Limit of clones

Derrick Brashear shadow@gmail.com
Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:42:29 -0400


On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Anders Magnusson <ragge@ltu.se> wrote:
> The manpage for vos clone says there are a maximum of 7 clones using the
> namei fileserver.
> What is the reason for this limitation?

The implementation uses only 3 bits (1 + 2 + 4 = 7)

Given that in a classic fileserver, RW, RO, BK, temporary clone = 4,
this wasn't really a problem.

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Derrick